Very useful site. IPU resolutions on Burma/Myanmar and lists of detained MPs-elect plus links to all parliamentary websites and more. For the IPU Council resolutions on Burma and lists of detained MPs-elect by year, search for Myanmar AND 157th for the first session online, Myanmar AND 166th for the April 2000 session and so on. Then click on the results you want.

(Ed. Note: At the national and local levels, despite the many human rights violations,
most poignantly in East Timor and Burma, the author believes there are brighter signs in the form of innovative
programmes and activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Vitit Muntarbhorn is a professor at the Faculty of Law,
Chulalongkorn University. He was formerly United Nations University Fellow at Oxford University and United
Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children. The following is derived from his paper for the Regional Hearing
for the Asia and Pacific Region in preparation for the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations, organised by Escap
and United Nations University Tokyo, Sept 9-10, 1999.)

A Handbook on the
Legal, Technical and Human Rights Aspects of Elections...FOREWORD:
"The United Nations Centre for Human Rights is pleased to offer this handbook
on human rights and elections as the second in its series of professional training publications.
This publication is unique in its comprehensive presentation of standards
and issues relating to the conduct of free and fair elections. As such, we hope that it
will prove to be a useful and practical tool for Governments, non-governmental
organizations, teachers and individuals involved in elections.
The Centre for Human Rights has been involved in electoral assistance, through
its programme of advisory services and technical assistance, since 1990. Since that
time, the Centre has provided electoral assistance to Romania (1990-1992), Albania
(1991), Lesotho (1991-1993), Eritrea (1992), Angola (1992), Cambodia (1992),
Malawi (1992-1993) and South Africa (1993). In addition, the Centre has prepared
guidelines for analysis of electoral laws and procedures, developed draft guidelines
for human rights assessment of requests for electoral assistance, and carried out a
number of public information activities relating to human rights and elections.
The Centre's interest in elections is based upon the realization that elections
themselves are human rights events: first, because they give voice to the political will
of the people involved; and secondly, because, to be truly free and fair consistent
with international standards, they must be conducted in an atmosphere which is respectful
of basic human rights. It should be seen as axiomatic that free and fair elections
involve far more than ballot boxes, voter registers and campaign posters.
Electoral assistance activities for the Centre represent a single point on a continuum
of the democratization process, and the Centre is prepared to follow up its involvement
in elections with other forms of assistance which may be crucial to postelectoral
democratic consolidation and a sustainable democratization process. Thus,
in following up its electoral assistance activities with countries, the Centre takes the
opportunity to inform those States of further assistance for democratic transition
available under the programme of advisory services and technical assistance.
The Centre enjoys close substantial cooperation with the United Nations Electoral
Assistance Unit and the United Nations Development Programme in this area,
and its role in electoral assistance has been enhanced by those relationships. Electoral
assistance, for the United Nations, is a truly system-wide endeavour, tapping the
complementary expertise and capacities of several organs of the United Nations
family.
The recent increase in demand for electoral assistance from the United Nations
has been reflected both in requests from States themselves and in the recommendations
of the World Conference on Human Rights, which, in the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, called for assistance to be provided at the request of Governments
for the conduct of free and fair elections, including assistance in the human
rights aspects of elections and public information about elections. The publication of
this handbook is one means by which the Centre seeks to respond to this clear demand
from the international community..."